The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1902, Page 6

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Market, Valencia, open until TEDLY has The Call pointed out the importance of returning to Congress the who served their constituents with fide!- ility, and has noted in this campaign the gratification felt over the renomination of Republican Representatives in district after district. f a ‘matter for surprise as well as for at there should be even a shadow of oppo- sition to the renomination of Mr. Loud in the Fifth Dist Surely the public approval that has every- where been given to the renomination of experienced men in other districts carries with it the assurance that the rank and file of Republicans of the Fifth are equally desirous that they also shall be repre- sented by 2 man of experience and influence in the House Measured by length of service and by rank on ees, Mr. Loud is at the head of the Califor- mia delegation at Washington. No other Californian of this generation has held so high a place in the House. He was selected originally by Speaker Reed to direct the important Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads, and performed the duties with such effi- ciency that ever since when the House has been un- der Republican control he has held that chairman- ship. By his service there he has materially aided in extending the benefits of the postoffice to the people while at the same time promoting economy in its ad- ministration. To him the people of the rural dis- tricts owe the extension of the free delivery system which gives to many rural localities the postal ad- wvantages of cities, and at the same time he has per- sistently and consistently sought to make even fur- ther extensions of such benefits possible by eliminat- ing the abuses which have burdened the Postal De- partment and wasted its revenues. It is not, however, only in postal affairs that Mr. Loud has recognized weight and influence in Con- gress. He was selected by Speaker Reed for that chairmanship because of his capacity for hard work, his reliability and his faculty for parliamentary lead- ership, and those qualities have been of service to the party in all lines of legislation. In fact, Mr. Loud is and has been for some time past one of the ablest licutenants Republican Speakers have had upon the floor of the House, and hardly any member of the present Congress has been more distinguished in fighting the battles of Republicanism and advancing” the enactment of great measures to which the party pledged itself in the previous campaign. It would be a political folly of the grossest kind for the people of the Fifth District to set aside a Representative of Mr. Loud’s proven worth and high position for the sake of making an experiment with 2 new man. In the first place it is extremely doubt- ful if the Republicans of the district can find 2 man who is personally so well qualified for success at ‘Washington as Mr. Loud. Such men are rare. They are not to be found at every election, nor in every district. A good many men of high local reputation were sent to Congress the year that Mr. Loud went there for the first time, but only here and there in widely scattered parts of the Union was there elected one who was found able to achieve anything like the career Mr. Loud has achieved. So that were the issue in the Fifth no more than one of personal su- periority, the argument would be in favor of Mr. Loud, since his fitness is no longer a question, but a truth attested by the sure proof of deeds done and service rendered. The main issue, however, is not one of personal- ity at all, but one of selecting from the district a Representative who will be able to guard its inter- ests, look after the welfare of the State and take a distinguished part in rational legislation. That Mr. Loud can do that in the next Congress better than any other man in his district is an indisputable truth, He will go to Washington not as an unknown man, but as one having high position, hosts of influential friends, ample experience and skill in the manage- ment of parliamentary affairs either in committee or in the House itself, while any other Representative from the district would be a comparative stranger, with little influence and no experience. These truths are so self-evident that it is impos- sible that the opposition to Mr. Loud should be any- thing more than a factious one. His renomination should be unanimous. ¢ D — Chancellor Andrews of the University of Nebraska is reported to have advised men to take raw beef, raw eggs or raw oysters instead of cocktails as a “bracer,” and about all that can be said of the advice is that it is a trifle too raw, open | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1902. : THE CAMPAIGN. ORTUNATELY | Feliminated the personal equation from the cam- ; . paign. The personality of the Repubh’can :licke! is 2bove reproach, and the fight must therefore | be made upon the issues of principle and policy. I.n | doing this the party has put itself in the right posi- ftion, since elections are indeterminate when . they turn upon personal issues only. Under our system of government and of politics it is intended that the people at the polls shall pass upon governmental policies. An election is their sole means of recording the popular ‘will in that respect. When lack of character in candidates makes that the matter seeming of greatest immediate importance the result has determined nething except that the people do or do not want bad men in office. -Under such circumstances an expression on issues_of principle is | held in 2beyance, while the people are compelled to settle a matter of political morality, which 3hould be settled by nominating conventions, as it has been settled by the Republicans of California. . The opposition is prone to make personal issues, and its organs are already at the work. But the pretext. | for it is artificial and does not exist in the nafure of | things, and is not found in the personality of the- ticket. The people will not be misled by the mak- ing of such an issue. They intend that November’s’ result shall have a2 higher meaning. They “intend’ | that it shall settle, once for all, Califorsiia’s position upon protection as an economic principle and -not a" policy of expediency, to be played with by great | consolidated interests, to their profit and the people’s loss. They intend that it shall affirm as a duty no longer to be evaded the protection of the State’s ‘cli- mate by conservation of forests and waters. Let that be so plainly understood that a Republican Legislature cannot adjourn until it has made sure the permanent fertility of the valleys by protecting the, forests of the mountains. This protection must be of such a nature that forest arson will be detected | and punished as a"crime against the means of human existence, and that the fires which annually cover the mountains with a pall of smoke and destroy more merchantable timber than economic use would de- mand in five years must be reduced to the minimum | and their cause, when they occur, must be unavoid- ;ahle accident only. | This question has been juggled with too long. It | is wasting the State’s greatest endowment of re- | sources and is drying up the fountains of moisture | at their source. The people will indorse the Repub- lican platform as their august instruction to their | representatives on this greatest of economics and will | expect that instruction to be obeyed or some one will | be punished. i So, in respect to al! the expressions of the platform, | each will be treated not as molasses ‘to catch: flies but {as a definite and intended declaration. In this view of the campaign the opposition press would be doing ‘bettcr than it is if, instead of pretending .to. pick | flaws in the personality of the ticket, it would sug- gest errors in the expression of principle and policy and put forward what it regards as‘a better and higher expression of the popular will. | By way of having something as a set-off to the | great exposition at St. Louis in 1904 Chicago has ar- ranged to hold that year what she calls “international Olympian games,” and now Boston, envious of her | reputation as the modern Athens, says that the only right Chicago has to give a Greek name to her en- terprise is that she “has more grease in her make-up than any other town in the world.” T ezuela deservedly attracts the attention of the commercial powers. As long as it was inland and strictly internal and did not affect commercial ac- cess to seaports by foreign vessels other Govern- ments were only concerned in the violation of per- sonal or property rights of their citizens or subjects domiciled in the country in pursuit of trade and the promotion of enterprise. Very numerous violations ‘of the rights of such aliens have accumulated a long score, which Ven- ezuela will have. to settle as soon as she has a gov- ernment that can be dealt with. Calvo’s theories of international law can n6 more be indorsed by the civilized Governments than could the. Holy Alliance if it were to reappear among national compacts. When a Government enters the family of nations it cannot retain the right to itself settle all issues affect- ing its domiciled aliens, as Calvo insists in his text- book on international law. Every Government is bound to follow its nationals with a protecting hand, to secure for their persons proper respect and for their property immunity from lawless spoliation. There is no doubt that the propa- gation of Calvo’s pernicious novelties has promoted the tendency to civil disorders throughout Central and South America, but neither Venezuela alone nor all those unstable Governments combined can force the family of nations to abandon their nationals to the uncertain mercy and the wanton administration of law which go with the principle of irresponsibility to the rest of the world. The sentiment of the world is touched to the quick by the pretense of a Venezuelan blockade of her sea- ports, under which European merchantmen are seized and American ships may be seized .and with their cargoes be confiscated. Several such seizures of European ships have already occurred, and the VENEZUELA. HE violent tevolution long in progress in Ven- sentment and retaliation. It is perhaps natural that these events bring on dis- cussion of the Monroe doctrine, and that certain of the Continental and British press say that its protec- tion enables Venezuela to commit the outrages com- plained of. It should not be necessary to point out that this is an error. When any state in the Mon- roe hemisphere violates international rights and law, as laid down by all the writers from Grotius to Hall, and flouts all propositions to right the wrong done, a casus belli appears and any European nation can send its fleet and its.army to punish the offender, with the sole restrietion that reprisal shall not include any seizure or permanent occupationof territory. The London Mail calls upon the United States to punish nations in the Monroe hemisphere for viola- tion of rights of European nationals. It is no part of our obligation under the Monroe doctrine to in- flict or prevent the infliction of punishment for such cause. Germany, France, Great Britain and Holland, 2ll of whom have suffered from the recklessness of Venezuela, are perfectly free to administer punish- ment. Citizens of the United States have also suffered in Venezuela, and, under the precedent recently es- tablished in the case of Salvador and followed in the Potter mine case in Mexico, this country will doubt- less in due time appear to protect her nationals. The Monroe doctrine would be justly offensive to Europe and intolerable to this country if it licensed the folly the Republican convention | | shall Jet-them al6ne, leaving to them the independent powers .are moving toward a ¢common policy in re- | and sayagery which characterize such révolutions as that which has kept Venezuela in turmoil for two years, Three families declaring themselves farmers, but suspected of béing gypsies, managed to get through ilhe immigration office at New York recently by dis- | playing upward of $20,000 in money and something like $10,000 worth of jewelry. Doubtless the money made the entry all right, but the amount of jewelry raises a Buspicion that their kind of farming must consist largely of raking in hayseeds. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. !T Armierican League of Municipalities by Mayor Ashley of New. Bedford, Mass, renews the | discussion of municipal and public ownership of pub; |lic utilitiese In ome part of the address all will be in hearty accord with the Mayor. He insists upon self- government for cities, and that State Legislatures HE address delivered at the meeting of the ‘administration of their local affairs. The evils that occur under a mixed administration of State and local authority.are numerqgus, costly and afflicting. That others will-appear-unfler independent municipal ‘government- is as certain‘as that they have appeared unders the joint and’ mixed system. When this is the case the pegple who-may fail to get relief from the local goverAment should still have the'right to appeal for State interference, so that while indepen- dence is a good thing, one way to keep it good and to protect the rights of a minority is to hold over it this right of appeal. & Independence during. good behavior for cities should be the rule. The necessity for its assertion now is greater than ever, in view of the ripper bills passed by the . Legislatures of Pennsylvania and Michigan. This novel. method of rewarding bosses and making a State machine in politics the control- 1ling force in all cities that have spoil to be taken was devised by Senator Quay to punish the city of Pitts- burg for. refusing to aid his Senatorial aspirations. His revenge took the form of depriving the city of seli-government. The Governor was empowered to appoint an executive officer of the city, who in’turn appointed all the officers 13 control of the Fire, Po- lice, School and other departments of the city gov- ernment. ' Pittsburg naturally protested against being ripped, and went into the courts for redress. But the Supreme Court of:the State decided the law to be constitutional, and there was no escape. The Michigan Legislature followed suit and has at- tenipted: fo subject Detroit to the same sort of State control,” and there is’ real danger that the system may spread extensively, . Taking polifics as it a system that will put all the patronage-of:large cities absolutely in the pos- session of State politicians is full of danger to self- government. The weakness and wickedness of mu- nicipal government furnish the excuse for taking it away altogether, and the people who have not taken pains to govern themselves well find themselves de- privedof the power to govern themselves at all. But once in full career the ripper. policy does not seek excuses in the bad government of cities, but in- cludes in its sweep good and bad alike. It is timely, therefore, to discuss the betterment and the independence of municipal government and to consider whether it will be made better ‘by em- barking in business. Mayor Ashley says that we will own public utilities and buy of ourselves and sell | to ourselves. - That sounds well, but'it is illusive. It seems like a dream of getting something for noth- ing, which is impossible. Boston concluded to do | her own printing, to sell to herself and buy of her- self in that respect. But it turns out that it costs her 40 per cent over the prices of private printing estab- lishments, and even then leaves a deficit of many thousands yearly to be made up by direct taxation. The State of California is in the printing business. But an expert examination of the State plant will { show that it costs the taxpayers several hundred per cent more to buy printing of themselves and sell it | to themselves than they would have to pay for the same work in private printing offices. It is probable that. the State school books printed in the State office cost at least five times as much as the most extravagant prices ever demanded by the book ring of other days. Municipal government, for the essen- tial purposes of government, should be independent of the State. But in the conducting of purely busi- ness enterprises there is no evidence that such inde- pendence will secure any better results than the costly failures shown when States have gone into busine: B . When in Chicago Prince Boris of Russia enter- tained a company of brilliant ladies of the theater, and at the supper drahk the health of one of them from her dainty slipper. = The pastor of a Greek | chureh in Minnéapolis having been asked if such a thing can be accounted proper, is reported to have { said: “There is no reason why one should hold up his hands in holy horror over such a performance. In | { Russia drinking out of slippers is a common occur- |rence. The Grand Duke is only human. He is hav- ing a good time.” The defense may be accepted as sufficient, but all the same a Russian who comes to this country ought to confine himself to having a Jgood American time and- not work Muscovyisms | on us. | ss. — Tt will be remembered that the Republican State i Convention in Wisconsin made its indorsement of Senator Spooner dependent upon the Senator’s in- dersement of the programme of Governor La Follette. | The Senator has not yet given the required indorse- ment of the Governor, but none the less he is getting | the support of the voters. Reports from the State | say that almost every Republican candidate for the [TLegislature has been pledged to vote for the Sena- tor’s re-election. P e It is reported that Chicago is meditating the ad- visability of organizing a messenger service of girls instead of boys, but it is to be hoped the project will be abandoned. The only defect of the boy messen-, ger is that he is too slow, but the girl messenger is liable to thé greater evil of becoming too fast. sl R The statement of Richard Mansfield that King Ed- ward intends to send to this country a social embas- sador of royal blood is interesting, but unless he comes prepared to scatter crosses and stars among the Four Hundred he will not eclipse the glorious memory of Prince Henry. The announcement'by ithe New York papers that J. Pierpont Morgan has appeared in a new Panama hat may explain why the coal trust is not able to make any.reduction in the .price of coal. The ex- penses of the directors are very high this year. An item is going the rounds of the Fastern press that California produces daisies one foot in diameter, and there is now hope that eventually they will do | justice to our prunmes, " " - 77 % ui l ® | Alexander Ivanovitch; a sailor and rope- maker, celebrated for his wit and conviv- A NATURAL GAS FORTWOTOWNS OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco partles who are owners of the stock of the Western Union Oil Company are planning to light two towns in Southern California with natural gas. The places are Lompoc and Santa Maria. A report has been submitted that there 1s- sufficient gas to form a long time sup- ply, which is the necessary preliminary. In fact, it is reported that the gas flow bas been increasing steadily in the Car- Teaga field, the scene of the Western Urion Company’s operations. The plant ©of the Western Union Company has been supplied with gas for fuel and has been lighted with natural gas for many months. The size of the project in connection with the two towns mentioned makes it unique in the history of California industrial en- terprises. z There has been much talk about the in- tentions of the Associated, Oil Company in connection with the authority voted to the directors to issue bonds to the emount of $5,000,000. It is learned, unof- ficlally, that the bond issue will be made only in part at this time. Under the terms of the agreement with the com- panies that have been consolidated, with all their belongings, into the Associated Oil Company, the personal property of the merged companies was to be paid for in cash. For this purpose the amount of $1,500,000 will be issued in bonds. The Santa Maria Times says that the Western Union Oil Company will begin to sink ten additional wells, —_—— PERSONAL MENTION. George W. Peltier, a banker of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. O. Y. Woodward of Woodwards Island is a guest at the Grand. E. BE. Bush, a real estate man of Han- ford, is a guest at the Lick, A. T. J. Reynolds, a fruit grower of Walnut Grove, is at the Lick. H. B. Gillls, an attorney of Yreka, 8 among the arrivals at the Grand. A. Clark, a mining man of Forest Hill, 1s among the arrivals at the Lick. L. T. Hatfleld, the well known attorney of Sacramento, is at the Occidental. John L. Hudner, an attorney of Hollis- ter, is among the arrivals at the Lick. E. C. Farnsworth, a candidate for nom- ination at the hands of the Democratic convention for the office of Associate Jus- tice of the Supreme Court, is at the Lick. ST Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Epbitt—J. H. Gillons, Los Angeles; St. James—A. C..C. Garner, C. A. Chaquette and wife, San Francisco. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NORA FULLER—K. F., City. The po- lice department has not abandoned its in- vestigation of the Nora Fuller murder case. WATERWAY—X. Y. Z, City. The length of the Chesapeake and Ohlo canal is 184 miles. It was completed in 1850 and cost $11,200,327. TIME FOR SLAVES—Subscriber, City. This correspondent is anxious to know the origin of “Time was made for siaves.” Its origin is not given in books of refer- ence. CHICAGO—Veteran, Veterans’ Home, Cal. The population in Chicago in 1847 was 16,859; in 1855 it was about 80,000. The flgures obtainable in this city do not give the population in 1850. FROM THE FRENCH—N. 0. V., City. “On' veut avoir ce qu'on na pas, et ce quon a cesse de plair,” is from the French of Monvel in “The Forbidden.” It means, “We wish to have what we have not, and what we have ceases to please:” CONFUSION—A. C. R., City. “Confu- slon worse confounded” is not from Skakespeare. It is from Milton’s “Para- dise Lost,” and the words are: ‘With ruin upon ruin, rout upon rout, Confusion worse confounded. CONFETTI—Dolores, Marysville, Cal. Confettl is Italian and means a honbon, or‘sweetmeat. The word is also used to designate a small pellet made of lime or plaster to imitate a bonbon, used in Italy during carnival time by the revelers for pelting one another on the streets, It ‘sl also applied to eggshells filled with bits of colored paper used for the,same pur- pose. THE AUTHOR—A friend of this depart- ment, J. K. C., informs it that the lines “There is a narrow ridge in the grave- vard,” etc., are from ‘‘After the Burial,” by James Russell Lowell, and that the last stanza is as follows: Yes, faith is a goodly anchor, When' the skies are sweet as a psalm, At the bow It Iqjls so stalwart In bluff, broad“shouldered calm. MALAKOFF—C. 8., City. The follow- ing is given as the origin of Malakoff as | arplied to the famous Malakoff tower, which caused so much trouble to the Al- lies in the Crimean War of 1855: In 1831 | fality, lived in Sebastopol. He had many friends and admirers, but being engaged in a riot was dismissed the dockyards in which he was employed. He then opened a liquor shop on a hill outside the dock- yards. His old friends gathered around him and his place was called “the Mala- koff.” In time other houses wepe built on | the hill where -his shop was located, and | the Malakoff became a town, which ulti- mately was fortified. THE PRESIDENCY—J. H., City. There | is nothing in the constitution-that requires | that a candidate for the Presigency of the United States must be a lawyer or a mem- ber of any particular profession. Of those who have served in the Presidential chalr | eighteen were: lawyers. Those who were | not lawyers are classed as follows: Wash- ington, planter; Monroe, statesma $ We H. Harrison, farmer; Taylor, soldier; | Johnson, statesman; Grant, soldler; | Roosevelt, . public officfal. Such was the | occupation of each at the time of elec-| tion. In early life Washington was a sur- | veyor; Monroe, lawyer; Harrison, soldier; | Tilimore, tailor; Lincoln, farmhand; John. | son, taflor; Garfleld, teacher; Arthur, | teacher; Cleveland, teacher, and Roose- velt, publicist. CONCLAVE—C., City. The term con- clave in connection with the sessions of the recent gathering of the Knights of Pythias in this city was frequently used, | but it is not recognized by that organiza- tion in connection with its sessions. Such are called conventions. ‘The only fra- ternity that uses the word conclave is the Knights Templar. Conclave is from the Latin conclavis -and means a set of rooms that are openéd by a common or master key. The term is applied to the little deal cells erected in some large apartment for the cardinals who meet to choose a new Pope, because the long gal- lery of the Vatican between the cells and the windows of the palace is. common ground to all conclavists. The assembly itself is, by a figure of speech, also called a conclave. Veterans on both sides of the Civil War are deeply interested in preventing the destruction of ‘two historic bulld!ni:,‘ in St. Louis. In ope Julia Dent became the ;:le :f 'muu'; = Grant, and in the other rah Knox Taylor was made bride of Jefferson Davis, = e MERCHANTS SEE WARES FROM PHILIPPINES The Pacific Commercial Museum has re- reived the first installment of a large ex- hibit of the raw products and of the wares manufactured in the Philippine Is-: lands or marketed in the islands from forelgn countries. With these has_come a statement of the prices obtained in the open market for the various articles, so that coast merchants are thereby afford- €d a glimpse of the material conditions under which business is cpnducted in the Fhilippines. Director Eugene Goodwin Is insfalling the exhibits that have been received. Many additional cases are to arrive on the next steamship from Manila. In thf lot already here are hats of straw and felt and a peculiar example of island in- genuity in double bamboo hats, of ex- tremely fine workmanship. Such hats sell for from $3 to §13 each in Manila, accord- ing to the fineness of the texture. Id all respects they appear to be fully equal to the best hats made in Central America end called Panama hats. In one case on exhibition is a collection of sandals of various prices, some of which are made of the hides of the cariboo or water buffalo. An addition to the commercial show Is an eight-stringed guitar, of very crude make; still another oddity is an assortment of bolos. There are also in the first installment of exhibits, all of which were collected by the special agent of the Commercial Museum in the Philippines, canned goods of French and Spanish preparation that are sold to the Filipinos; runner from Jolo; samples of rope and hemp, samples of indigo, manufactured in northern Lu- zon by Japanese and native islanders; gutta percha from Mindanao; also models of cocoanut and hemp factories, such as ere employed by the natives. There are on the way from the Philippines 50 pho- tographs illustrative of conditions ‘af- fecting commercial enterprises and throw- ing light on the people whose trade may be sought by the people of the Pacific Coast. —_—— TWO NATIONS MAY BATTLE OVER ACRE Brazil and Bolivia in Dispute Over Small but Fertile Ter- ritory. There is a region in Northern Bolivia known on the maps as Acre—although it comprises many acres of fertile lands— which has been disputed - territory be- tween Bolivia and Brazil for nearly fifty years. The little country has come into public notice recently because Bolivia leased a part of the Acre region to an Anglo-American syndicate. Brazil objects to this business arrangement and has threatened to break off diplomatic rela- tions unless the contract is rescinded. Except that the country is rich in rub- ber, little is known about it." It occupies a triangular space between the bounda- ries of Brazil and Bolivia and Peru and Bolivia, with the Beni River as the base. The position of the sides of this triangle as interpreted by the two countries is the cause of the dispute. A traveler recently returned from Acre says of the natives that they are in many respects like the Bolivians, but that there are among them tribes of a lower class than can be found eisewhere in that part of the world. Some of them are said to be cannibals, and all are shy and averse to the invasion of their country by the whites. They are experts in the art of using darts, spears and javelins, and delight in practicing with these from the bush on intruders, whom they usually attack from behind. They wear no clothes, but have elab- orate headdresses, made of feathers and beads, and the younger ones wear strings of ‘coins and metal disks around their necks and wrists. There are no horses or mules in Acre, and the llama is used as the beast of burden.—Chicago Chronicle. —_—— Deepest Mine in the World. It is claimed, and with reason, that the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla copper. mine, in Northern Michi- gan, is the deepest in the world. It has taken nine years of day and night work to sink and has cost $2,500,000. This shaft is vertical, but all the other shafts of the Calumet and Hecla follow the dip of the lode. Work on it was started In 1889, immediately after the last of the three great underground fires in the older workings of the mine, which did damage of more than $1,000,000. Work has been continued upon it since that time and ‘the shaft’stands without a parallel in mining. It is 4800 feet im depth, or 330 feet less than a mile. It contains six com- partments, each equal in size to an or- dinary mining shaft, four of which are used for hoisting rock and lowering «tim- ber. Oné shaft is utilized for the ladder- ways and the sixth and last compartment carries the wires and pipes for tele- phones, light, pewer, water and com- pressed air. —_——e————— the recent census the population of va’i Zealand is fixed at §15,820. MANSION THAT SPARKLES AS IF JEWEL-STUDDED ‘The handsome dwelling at the corn. of Washington and Franklin streets, has just been remodeled and made imp. ing by capacious conservatory and addition of several commodious rooms, will sdon be ready for occupancy It to be the residence of W. J. Dingee Oakland. The carpenters have been man months reconstructing a part of the structure and building the addftions, u til now the Dingee mansion will be amo: the handsomest dwellings in San Fran- cisco. - People passing the house dre attracted by the glistening, sparkling effect tha: makes the walls look jewel studded. Th. idea is unique, and has never been at- tempted before in this eity. The effect has been easily obtained, the process being of the most simple. The house, which is of striking architecture is a massive ‘wooden structure. The; ex- terior, by sanding, is-given the appear- ance of having a brown or sandstone fac- ing. The workmen, to get the jewel effect, crush the finest of blown glass to- gether with the sand, and, while the ‘wooden exterior is still damp with paint, the combination of sand and glass |s thrown on to the surface and the effect is obtained of stone and sparkling facing. When the sun shines on Mr. Dingee's handsome house the effect, while being novel in this city, is extremely fascinat- ing—so much so, indeed, that almost ev- ery one passing is seen to stop and make an inspection of the buflding. It is one mass of sparkle, from the Gothic roof to the ground. The idea of such unique decoration was first adopted in Parfs. In New York it has been carried out in a few-instances. . The origin of the “sparkle decoration’ was first suggested by a French archi- tect, who had noticed the glistening of snow on the sides and roofs of houses. ‘He was much interested in the effect, and came to the canclusion that a per- petual glistening of the walls of dwellings would be a unique form' of decoration, and it was he who concetved the idea of crushing glass and sand together to get the “diamond sparkle” effect. Mr. Dingee having set the example, may yet be responsible for a city of sparkling houses. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Dolly—She has a bad cold, hasn’t she? Polly—Did you ever have a good cold?— Somerville (Mass.) Journal. “I" used to hear you talk by ‘the hour about the slipshed way the city has been doing everything. You used to say you wished some private corporation had the ‘water works.” “And yet you voted for municipal own- ership of street cars.” “Yes; I live on the North Side now."— Chicago Tribune. “Do you think smoking is injurious?” asked the careful friend. “I'm sure of it,” answered Mr. Meek- ton. “Nothing i3 worse for lace curtains than smoking.”—Washington Star! “Madam,” sald the facetious boarder to the landlady, “are these storage eggs?” “I think they must be,” replied the lady; “you appedr to have stored away five of them.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I wish you would come up to take din- ner with me,” said Senator Tillman to a friend in the Capitol recently. “Certainly,” was the reply. your address?” “Eighteen sixty-one Mintwood place,” said the Senator. “That’s pretty hard to rememBer,” sald Tillman's friend: “I'l write it down.” “Oh, no,” remarked Tiliman. “Remember the year the war began. That will fix the nymber of the house. 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